Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.61 GPA, 81.2% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.60 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=30 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.54 GPA, 72.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Statistical Methods I
STAT 601 provides a thorough grounding in modern statistical methods, covering data collection, exploration, probability, and analysis.
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Historical reviews of Vivak Patel: Reviewers describe a heavy workload with difficult projects and expect students to do significant independent work, noting that graduate-level rigor requires hard work.
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Course mapGraduate/professional standing or declared in Statistics VISP
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- Graduate/professional standing or declared in Statistics VISP
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Historical reviews of Vivak Patel: Vivak Patel receives polarized reviews for STAT 601. Some students praise his passion and concept teaching, while others criticize his communication, accessibility, and grading. Workload is frequently described as heavy, with mixed opinions on lecture clarity and support.
VIVAK PATEL is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
WEI-YIN LOH is recorded teaching in Fall 2016, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
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Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 11 / 20 | 0 |
| DIS 312 | Classroom Instruction | 11 / 20 | 0 |
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the class
Historical reviews for Vivak Patel are polarized, ranging from praise for his passion and concept teaching to complaints about poor communication, pedantry, and unhelpful office hours.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.88 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.55 GPA, 78.4% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.54 GPA, 72.0% A/AB (n=25 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Vivak Patel: Reviewers describe a heavy workload with difficult projects and expect students to do significant independent work, noting that graduate-level rigor requires hard work.
Historical reviews of Vivak Patel: Students report that TAs often explain concepts better than the instructor, and lecture examples sometimes fail to connect to harder material, requiring self-study.
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Fall 2026 · Projected
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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.
The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.
6 earlier forecasts · 0.15 GPA average error.
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Statistical Methods I
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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